Tag: Water Quality Monitoring
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Meet our new Water Quality Monitoring Manager
Hello all! My name is Sam Brown (she/her), and I am Nature Forward’s new Water Quality Monitoring Manager.
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Creek Chronicles: Great Seneca Creek
Great Seneca Creek yields catches and makes memories for anglers and stream monitors alike in upcounty Montgomery County.
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Creek Chronicles: Pinehurst Branch
A group of water quality monitors has been monitoring this stream in Rock Creek Park for three decades–even in the winter.
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Creek Chronicles: Goshen Branch
How has the macroinvertebrate population at Goshen Branch fared over the past several years—and what lies ahead in the future?
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For the Love of Muck and Macroinvertebrates: A Former Camper Returns to Conduct Research on Woodend’s Restored Pond
By Meg Jarvis I’m Meg Jarvis (they/them), and this past summer I surveyed the aquatic macroinvertebrate populations in Woodend Sanctuary’s recently restored pond. I attend university in Brighton, England, but I grew up just around the corner from Woodend. I went to camp there throughout my childhood and, when I aged out of camp, I…
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State of the Streams 2024
Nature Forward’s new report provides a unique snapshot of five natural resources in our region: Accotink Creek, Little Falls Branch, Rock Creek, Seneca Creek, and Sligo Creek.
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Stream Monitoring Volunteers are Your “Eyes on the Ground”
October. Fall Monitoring. Three incidents discovered and reported. For nearly 30 years, WQM volunteers have played a crucial role in protecting streams by serving as “eyes on the ground.” They do this by observing, identifying and reporting potential threats.
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Equipping our Community Scientists to Monitor Streams
Nature Forward received a grant from the Society for Biodiversity Preservation (SBP) in January 2022 to purchase equipment for use by our volunteers who monitor streams in the Washington, DC Metro region. Our Water Quality Monitoring (WQM) community science program, which has been running for 30 years, helps fill data gaps in the freshwater stream…
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Find Older Conservation Blog Posts
Conservation Blog posts prior to November, 2022 can be found at our old URL: http://conservationblog.anshome.org/. Please visit us there to read more great content on our work!
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Why water quality monitoring speaks to me
By Pete Yarrington, long-time WQM volunteer Editor’s note: This article was adapted from Pete Yarrington’s testimony at the May 17, 2001 Nature Forward (then Audubon Naturalist Society) presentation to the Montgomery County Planning Board. This article was originally published in the September, 2001 Naturalist Quarterly publication. ANS water quality monitoring site #29 is located on…